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- Once you have incorporated all your changes, you should repeat the pretest -- otherwise you may be making matters worse. Of course you need to recruit different people, since the original testers now know how to understand your questions. | - Once you have incorporated all your changes, you should repeat the pretest -- otherwise you may be making matters worse. Of course you need to recruit different people, since the original testers now know how to understand your questions. | ||
- Even good questionnaires need a couple of alterations. Usually, 2-4 Pretest rounds are needed, to turn a good questionnaire into a really good one. However, the effort is worthwhile: better data quality, less drop-outs and less effort during the analysis and interpretation. Especially under time pressure a pretest should not be missed out on. | - Even good questionnaires need a couple of alterations. Usually, 2-4 Pretest rounds are needed, to turn a good questionnaire into a really good one. However, the effort is worthwhile: better data quality, less drop-outs and less effort during the analysis and interpretation. Especially under time pressure a pretest should not be missed out on. | ||
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+ | Useful hints on pretesting and further test methods are described, for example, in the text [[http:// | ||
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